Mo Gilligan: What is the worst job you have done?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Mo Gilligan said elsewhere, not written here

Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

Bill Bailey Comedian and musician

Telesales. I refused to wear a tie, but my argument that “They can’t see what we’re wearing” didn’t wash with the manager and I lasted a week.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2016 source ↗

Paterson Joseph British actor and author

Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗